The Graying of a Hummingbird

They move in fast- dazzling with their beauty and sunsplashed energy- they are a complete mystery to us we wait for them to tell us something about ourselves to tell us a secret about the universe to take us to their bejeweled city far away from the mundane. but things rapidly change turning back into something familiar to you.. all the while sucking you dry - then leaving in a blur without revealing much of anything while you revealed everything to them. You sit there stunned following their retreat back to the edge of the horizon until they look more like dragonfly than hummingbird wondering if they were ever really there in the first place maybe it wasn't a hummingbird after-all maybe it was just a dragonfly.. pretending to be a hummingbird We quietly hope that it will return someday in that same spectacular bejeweled blast and say something meaningful-wonderful- healing-lasting but it never returns... relationships are alot like hummingbirds